Lilac and Mauve day!

Hey all,

Been a rubbish week tbh. My poor mini has taken a battering in the last 7 days :o(. Yesterday someone backed into it and last Sunday I managed to badly scrape one of it's alloys! Now, if you're not a car fan then I guess that wouldn't seem like a big deal, but I love my car!

Also, in case you have tried the linky on the right to the promarker challenge blog, you'll see, like me, that it no longer exists -unless they have changed the blog address!! :o( I didn't make it up, honestly people!

Moving on though, I thought I'd show you my latest little creation; doesn't look amazingly imaginative, but aside from that I really enjoyed using the image and sentiment and the colours; the ribbon seems to match quite well too.

I am gonna get back to watching 'Britain's Got Talent' now (sad, I know but I find it soo funny!).

Have a great night, whatever you're upto.

Hugz, Trix

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Paper Take Challenge

Just a quick posting to show you this little number which I made for this weeks 'Paper Take Challenge'. What do you think of the dog image? I just adore it! It's another download from http://www.bee-crafty.blogspot.com/. I coloured it with my pro-markers and for once I actually like the result! lol. I took the idea for the flower combo from a lovely card that my fellow craft blogger Tina sent me a few months ago (thanks Teen). I layered up the card with papers from the CCSR Big One Pack and gave a distressed look to some of the edges by tearing with my trusting metal ruler and inking them up. I doodled the edges of the main card blank and image with a black fineliner pen. Finally, I added a couple of eyelets with my crop-a-dile and added a sentiment which I cut into bone type shape to fit in with the cute doggy theme! I'd love to hear your comments - good or bad...

Materials:

Papers: CCSR Big One pack, blank white cardstock

Stamps: downloaded image from bee-crafty.blogspot.com, sentiment - CCSR sentiment set

Inks: Versamagic chalk ink - gingerbread, whispers inkpad - black

Pens: Promarkers - Sandstone, satin, cool grey 1, blush; black fineliner

Embellishments: flowers and eyelets - Papermania;
Tools: metal ruler, crop-a-dile, EZ runner-permanent strips, 3D dimensional glue, scissors, 3D sticky pads

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all enjoy your weekend!

Love

Trix x

Men! Why are they so difficult? lol

If anyone has any fab tips or suggestions on how to make male cards then send your answers on a postcard to....

Just kidding! I can't say I find it easy though! lol. Here is my attempt at making Adam's birthday card for later this month. It's pretty plain and simple but he tends to like the minimalist look on cards.

I used one of my new personal impressions stamps from the set I bought over the weekend and coloured it with my polychromos (the colours look a lot paler when photographed for some reason). I cut and embossed the circles with my nesties hen shaded with polychromos and stuck on the nail embellishments which I found buried in amongst my craft stash.

Has anyone seen the new Penny Black clear stamp ranges yet? There are several new sets which I found over at http://www.diestodiefor.co.uk/ and I just love them! Can't justify anymore craft purchases this month though :o( Already spent out my polychromo pencil set last week at £30 (ouchy ouch!)

Anyways, if I have enough time I'll enter the Paper Take Challenge this week as I think the sketch is nice and simple yet effective:

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

Ta ta for now.

Trix x

Evening Peeps,

Had a good few days off? I don't know what the weather has been like in your part of the country today but down here in Essex it's been pants compared with the rest of the weekend! Had planned on sunning my (quite wintersome pale) self on the beach today but the sun just didn't want to shine. Instead, Adam (my bf) and I went out for a drive and I found (by chance) a little craft and art centre in one of the villages we passed through, so of course we had to stop and pay a visit. In amongst the paintings and local craftwares for sale I found these cute stamps made by 'personal impressions' and they only cost £4.60 for the set:

Whilst posting I thought I'd show you this wedding card I made this week for Adam's cousin. I used one of my new downloaded images from www.bee-crafty.blogspot.com . A real steal at the £1.75 intro rate for a set of 3 wedding themed images.

I have only just started using polychromo pencils so my colouring of the images is not as great as it could be (anyone know of any tips for using these pencils???) printing on textured card didn't help matters though! Silly me. :o(

Materials:::

Papers: Pink paper - PM Sweet Nothings pack, Hearts Paper - Doodlebug Inc.,

Stamps: Wedding Couple - download from www.bee-crafty.blogspot.com, sentiment - www.Impression-Obsession.com,

Inks: Versamagic Chalk Ink 'pixie dust'. Whispers inkpad 'black'

Embellishments: PM and Prima flowers, Ribbons - from stash


Ta ra for now..

Trix xx

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Stampin myself happy..

It seems I am posting less and less often, probably because I only like to post when I have some news or have a new crafty item/card to share with you all but just recently (due to stresses) I have lost my crafting mojo :o( . Been searching high and low for it but god only knows where I left it! lol. Does anyone else out there feel like this from time to time??
I have, however, managed to put together this little creation for the stampin chic colour challenge, which (blindingly obvious I know but) is turquoise and yellow this week. what do you think? Be honest!
I didn't realise how little 'yellow' featured in my craft stash tbh. I did manage to dig out some yellow coredinations cardstock and some yellow butterflies that I turned into charms and hung from the small loops in the ribbon (very fiddly!)



Materials:
Papers: CCSR Big One Pack, coredinations yellow card, white paper dotted with yellow pro-marker
Embellishments: handmade charms using jump rings from ebay, yellow paper butterflies from stash, anitas 3D glue, ribbon from stash
Stamps: CCSR sentiments, CCSR doodles


Oh, I almost forgot! Some good and inspirational news to share! Bee over at bee-crafty.blogspot.com really liked my use of her 'whimsical girl' design on my last card and decided to make my card/blog 'feature spot of the week'! I felt so priveleged!

I really hope everyone is looking forward to 3 days off work! I know I am.

Enjoy!!

Hugz #
Trix

Stampin Chic Sketch Challenge 3

Another week, another challenge!

It's been a funny old week thanks to the Bank Holiday weekend. I have lost track of the days lol!
My fridge has gradually emptied itself of Chocolate throughout the week, mainly thanks to Adam being off work and munching his way through about 6 eggs!

I treated myself to 3 new images which I bought and downloaded from http://www.bee-crafty.blogspot.com/ (gorgeous images and really reasonably priced). I also got myself a bigger guilotine and one of those 'staz on' ink pads this week as my current black ink pad is getting a tad worn out...I wonder why?! :o) I don't know if it's just because it's new but I am finding I have to be really careful not to ink up my stamps too much otherwise I get a really messy, overly inked image. Maybe I am just being too heavy handed??

Anyway, here is my entry for this weeks stampin chic challenge. I really liked working with the given sketch. I used one of my new downloaded images (whimsical girl) which I printed twice -one onto decent cardstock and then onto a piece of brown spotty paper from the CCSR Big One pack so I could paper piece the hat and the boots. I coloured the dress with my versamagic chalk inkpad to give a subtle effect. I finished the flowers off with some old paper planet glitter glue I had just to add a bit of sparkle!

Hope you like!

Hugz, Trix

Papers: CCSR Big One Pack, Karen Foster Pink Spotty paper

Embellishments: PM brads

Images: Whimsical Girl from bee-crafty.blogspot.com, sentiment and flower stamps from CCSR range, flower (inside) from elzybells.co.uk

Inks and Pens: Versamagic Pixie Dust Chalk inkpad, Pro-markers, Whispers brushstroke pens

Stampin Chic 'Limited Supplies' Challenge #2

Happy Easter Peeps!

Well, this morning my fridge was half empty, but come midday look how full it was! lol. :O)

No, I am not that greedy, honestly, they are mainly Tyler and Adam's but 3 of the eggs are mine. I think it'll be chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next..month.

Anyway, back to this week's challenge over on the stampin' chic blog (see linky to the right). This week the challenge is to limited to one shape to use throughout the card. I decided on a rectange which I used for the shape of the card blank, image, length of ribbon and the insert design.

Brown and green is not my ultimate colour combo but it suited the Penny Black image I had. The spotty brown paper is from CCSR-Big One pack but I coloured some of the white spots in green and pink with promarkers.

Papers: Spotty brown paper -CCSR Big One Pack, Brown Card - Core'dinations Chocolate Collection, Green Card - Core'dinations, card blank made from card in stash

Stamps: Penny Black frog image - gift from DC member, flower stamp - elzybells.co.uk from the celebration sheep stamp set

Embellishments: PM flower punch, PM white flowers, PM pastel mini brads, ribbon - from stash.

Right, I must get back to job hunting now :o(.

Enjoy the rest of your long weekends!

Love, Trix

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